From: Edgar Foster (questioning1@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 14 1998 - 22:45:46 EDT
Carl and George,
I thought I was fastidious! :-)
E. Foster
---"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:
>
> At 3:06 PM -0500 4/14/98, dalmatia@eburg.com wrote:
> >The past perfect tells us Paul died. [or Paul did die]
>
> No: the past perfect (or pluperfect) tells us that Paul WAS dead at
some
> point in the past when something else related to it in the sentence
took
> place. It is the AORIST that "tells us Paul died" (as a fact about a
past
> event).
>
> But enough. I'll not carry this on any further. I just didn't want
to let
> the misrepresentation of the past perfect stand.
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics/Washington University
> One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
> Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
> cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cconrad@yancey.main.nc.us
> WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
>
>
>
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